Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was a noted Swiss writer who was born in Zurich city on 11 October, 1825. He is well known for composing beautiful poems, historical narratives and ballads. As a poet, his most popular work was an epic, Hutten's Last Day, which included 71 poems written in iambic verse.
Early Life of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
In this early life he received his education in French literature. Later from 1870s to the first half of 1890s Conrad's gave a new shape to 13 historical narratives and poems, which were integrated on the historical setting of Reformation, Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He wrote many novellas , which were narrative work , longer than short story but shorter in length than a novel. His novella Das Leiden eines Knaben or The Sufferings of a Young Boy in 1883 was structured on the historical backdrop of the time of Louis XIV.
Conrad was close to his father, Ferdinand Meyer who was a historian, patrician and councilman. Encouraged by his father Conrad became interested in historical studies. Conrad used to spent his summer with his father, visiting the country side of Switzerland.
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After his father's death, Conrad started living in Lousanne with a renowned historian, Louis Vulliemin in 1843. Later, he suffered from mental illness and in 1852 he was admitted to Prefargier, a psychiatric hospital. He served as the history teacher in Institute for the Blind located in Laussanne.
Works of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Some of the famous works of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer include translation of Guizot's L'amour dans le marriage or Love in Marriage and Augustin Thierry's Recits de temps Merovingiens or Accounts of the Merovingian Times into German.
Historical Novellas of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer are Das Leiden eines Knaben, Das Amulett, Die Versuchung des Pescara, Gustav Adolfs Page, Der Heilige, Die Versuchung des Pescara and Der Schuss von der Kanzel.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is regarded as the well known literary figure of Zurich because of his remarkable contribution in the field of literature and his remarkable translation works.
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